When Scavengers Meet Industrial Wireless

Author

Martinez, Borja ; Vilajosana, Xavier ; Chraim, Fabien ; Vilajosana, Ignasi ; Pister, Kristofer S. J.

Author_Institution

Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

62

Issue

5

fYear

2015

fDate

May-15

Firstpage

2994

Lastpage

3003

Abstract

Recent standardization efforts on industrial low-power wireless communication technologies clearly bet for the Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) medium access control (MAC) layer as it proved to achieve 99.999% reliability while ensuring deterministic behavior. Standards such as WirelessHART, ISA100.11a, and IEEE802.15.4e rooted at the TSCH MAC layer are used to connect millions of industrial devices today, enabling the emergence of the Industrial Internet paradigm. At that point and due to the ultralow energy profile of TSCH networks, scavengers come into play, enabling autonomously powered control and monitoring systems on industries. However, putting these systems together requires a clear understanding of their behavior. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology and a model to reliably dimension scavenger properties to network requirements and application needs, allowing industries to optimize the adoption of that technologies while keeping technical risks low.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; Industrial Internet paradigm; TSCH MAC layer; industrial low-power wireless communication technologies; time slotted channel hopping medium access control layer; Data models; Energy consumption; Monitoring; Sensors; Vibrations; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Energy scavenging; Low-power modelling; energy scavenging; industrial wireless; low-power modeling; self-powered wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIE.2014.2362891

Filename

6922531